Digital Theory Lab

I sunk my teeth back into this project on Tuesday and Wednesday, and I’m hopeful that we’ll soon have some public updates. The code changes did include one public PR to treetok, a Python library that gives an indication of the research’s general domain, i.e. LLM interpretability at the level of token variation. Here’s a sneak peek of some data visualization from the project:

This is a screenshot of a viewer that I wrote this week with Bonsai, a frontend framework developed at Jane Street that incorporates concepts from Elm, React, and other functional UX libraries and packages them through OCaml. Though I wrote recently about my drift away from web development, it was the topic of my most serious technical thinking as an undergraduate, and visualization is inseparable from programming, despite the fetish of some backend/systems engineering cultures that isolate the two from each other. I do like the idea of having a more powerful type system for frontend work (in Bonsai you write code in OCaml with effectively inlined HTML and CSS, and it compiles to HTML/CSS/Javascript).